Marking-machine.



' No. 68|,l92. Patented Aug. 27, 190i.

L. 8. BURBANK.

MARKING MACHINE;

(Application filed Nov. 19. 1900.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets-850st I.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LoUIs S. BURBANK, ,a citizen of the United States,residing at Worcester, in the county of Worcester and .95 State ofMassachusetts,have invented certain new and useful Improvements inMarking- Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers to skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame. In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is I a partial sideelevation of my machine. Fig. 2is an end elevation of the same, and Fig.3

is a plan view-of the same.

p This invention has relation to mechanism for placing a mark or signupon packages or cartons as they are fed by a carrying device, all ashereinafter set forth.

20, In the accompanying drawings the letter :Adesignates the end portionof the framework, supporting an endless carrier or belt B, j I havingseries of opposite fingers O rising from its edge portions, said fingersserving .25 to push the cartons Z along independently. At each side ofthe carrier-belt is attached to the frame anarrow side guard D, designedto keep the cartons or boxes in line at their ends. The endpulley,around which the belt t j 30,13 passes downward to return, isindicated at Q E. An upper belt E, parallel to the beltB and moving withequal speed, serves to engag'e the tops of the boxes and hold them to pf a steady movement. A tongue board or l bridge-piece F, somewhatnarrower than the interval between the two opposite fingers of I thebelt, extends to that portion of the latter when. it begins to bend inits downward movement and serves to take the boxes from 4o the bolt asthey are pushed thereon by the g edge fingers. In order to prevent thelower p front corner of each box or carton from catching against theedge or lip of the bridge F, :the inwardly-inclined lateral springs orfric- 45, tion-fingers G are attached to the frame in positionto extendalong the upper portion of g each box as it is carried along betweenthem near the end of the belt. These spring-fin gers have africtionalbearing on the box and MARKING- j l5ofhold its upper portion back a little,so that its :LOUIS S. BURBANK, OF WVOROESTER, MASSACHUSETTS,ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE NATURAL FOOD COMPANY, OF NIAGARAFALLS,

MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 681,192, dated August27, 1901.

Application filed November 19, 1900. Serial No. 37,032. (No model.)

forward lower corner rises to pass the edge of the bridge. The boxespass over the bridge, being pushed along by each other and move alongthe receiving-way I ,one behind another, until the lateral slide way His reached. As each box comes opposite this slideway it is engaged bythe finger K of the reciprocating spring trip lever L, said fingerworking through a slot m of the slideway, as indi cated. Forward motionis communicated intermittently to the lever L by means of the fingers ofthe endless carrying-belt and the tappet-arms J of Ethe gear-shaft n inconnec-' tion with the gear-shaft of the trip-lever. A spring 12 servesto quickly retract the lever when the tappet-arms escape the. fingers ofthe belt.

Transversely arranged over the lateral slideway H. in position justabove the tops of the boxes passing along said slideway is an inking-padand pen or a marking-roller, said pen or roller or other marking deviceH being arranged in an inclined pendent position in such manner that itsmarking will be effected along the top of the box passing through theslideway thereunder.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s-

1. The combination with the endless package-carrier and its edgefingers, of the bridgeboard, the lateral friction device, the slottedslideway, and its marking device, the springretracted lever and thetrip-gearing in connection therewith, and intermittently oper-' o5 atedby the fingers of the endless package carrier, substantially aspecified.

2. In a marking-machine, the combination with the endless carrier andits fingers,- of the trip-levenits retracting-spring, and ac- 9o tuatingmechanism for said trip-lever operated intermittently by said fingers,substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LOUIS S. BURBANK.

Witnesses:

ALBERT I-I. CHArFnn, J. R. GILKESON.

